This is off-topic, and I apologize. I don't want to offend you, but I'm a cranky, elderly grammar junkie. It should be: What Do Romance Writers Think About? No apostrophe because in this context, the word "writer" should not be a possessive.
I’d say that person must be miserable if they’re spending time nitpicking your word choices. I think your blog is great, and I look forward to reading your posts. And I don’t open many emails. Only the stuff I really want to read.
That is so true. I taught fine arts at a community college in SJ. Retired three years ago. The amount of sensitivity and safety classes I took every years, ungodly. Somehow the people that needed these classes were never at them. Your book is romance…steamy maybe, not offensive. I always put over age 18 content on mine. If it gets into BDSM with less story and more sex it could go into erotica, but your book seems to have too much story for that, I think yours could go into erotic romance if it gets high steam, but the lines between all these categories are blurred.
Hysterical! I think I spelled this correctly, my glasses aren't working as well as they should this morning! I'm not almost either, I'm all the way over, but it doesn't keep me from grasping on with every fingernail. Laughing at yourself and having fun is what keeps you young, but you know this. Thank you for leaving a comment Kim!
Thank you, Ellen. Again, I could be over-sensitive. Next week I'm positing on translation. Do you know anything or anyone that might want to add to the article?
Sadly, this notion of "sensitivity training" was echoed at a community college where I taught. They held workshops for all sorts of "sensitivities," but callously discriminated against adjunct faculty on the basis of age and disability: go figure!
On the literary front, @Kay Freeman, we are on the same page. I was informed that many aspects of my series, THE PASSION OF ELENA BIANCHI, beginning with a number of scenes and the conclusion of the first book, IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE (which I am uploading to substack), might be "offensive" to some people. Well, guess what? I respectfully declined to remove them.
As another almost old broad, I'll be 69 in November, I am sick to death of all the humorless people who wouldn't recognize sarcasm if it bit them in the butt. Part of the artistic process is reflecting the world as you see it. Oh, I'm not only almost old, I'm very gray and more than a little fat.
This is off-topic, and I apologize. I don't want to offend you, but I'm a cranky, elderly grammar junkie. It should be: What Do Romance Writers Think About? No apostrophe because in this context, the word "writer" should not be a possessive.
I’d say that person must be miserable if they’re spending time nitpicking your word choices. I think your blog is great, and I look forward to reading your posts. And I don’t open many emails. Only the stuff I really want to read.
That is so true. I taught fine arts at a community college in SJ. Retired three years ago. The amount of sensitivity and safety classes I took every years, ungodly. Somehow the people that needed these classes were never at them. Your book is romance…steamy maybe, not offensive. I always put over age 18 content on mine. If it gets into BDSM with less story and more sex it could go into erotica, but your book seems to have too much story for that, I think yours could go into erotic romance if it gets high steam, but the lines between all these categories are blurred.
Hysterical! I think I spelled this correctly, my glasses aren't working as well as they should this morning! I'm not almost either, I'm all the way over, but it doesn't keep me from grasping on with every fingernail. Laughing at yourself and having fun is what keeps you young, but you know this. Thank you for leaving a comment Kim!
You are right. I like cranky, elderly grammar junkies.
Thank you, Ellen. Again, I could be over-sensitive. Next week I'm positing on translation. Do you know anything or anyone that might want to add to the article?
Sadly, this notion of "sensitivity training" was echoed at a community college where I taught. They held workshops for all sorts of "sensitivities," but callously discriminated against adjunct faculty on the basis of age and disability: go figure!
On the literary front, @Kay Freeman, we are on the same page. I was informed that many aspects of my series, THE PASSION OF ELENA BIANCHI, beginning with a number of scenes and the conclusion of the first book, IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE (which I am uploading to substack), might be "offensive" to some people. Well, guess what? I respectfully declined to remove them.
Thank you for posting. I'm 75, and a "grammar Nazi" in my own right (cf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM).
As another almost old broad, I'll be 69 in November, I am sick to death of all the humorless people who wouldn't recognize sarcasm if it bit them in the butt. Part of the artistic process is reflecting the world as you see it. Oh, I'm not only almost old, I'm very gray and more than a little fat.